Submission + - Elon Musk talks about the importance of Physics, and puts down the MBA
ElSergio writes: In a two part interview with the American Physical Society, Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, talks about how important it is to be able to think in terms of first principals, a tool learned as a physics student (http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201310/profiles.cfm) .
Later in the interview he recommends against obtaining an MBA, claiming "It teaches people all sorts of wrong things" and "They don't teach people to think in MBA schools". (http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201311/profiles.cfm) In fact if you are in business, and want to work for SpaceX, you will have a better chance getting hired if you do NOT have one. According to musk, "I hire people in spite of an MBA" and goes on to to point out that if you look at the senior managers in his companies, you will not find very many MBAs there.
Later in the interview he recommends against obtaining an MBA, claiming "It teaches people all sorts of wrong things" and "They don't teach people to think in MBA schools". (http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201311/profiles.cfm) In fact if you are in business, and want to work for SpaceX, you will have a better chance getting hired if you do NOT have one. According to musk, "I hire people in spite of an MBA" and goes on to to point out that if you look at the senior managers in his companies, you will not find very many MBAs there.
